Barrington, Somerset Family History Guide
Barrington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Westport, West Port, and Barrington Hill.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stocklynch Ottersey
- Puckington
- Ilton
- Isle Brewers
- Bickenhall
- Shepton Beauchamp
- Kingsbury Episcopi
- Ashill
- Broadway
- Buckland St Mary
- Whitelackington
- Hambridge with Earnshill
- Stocklynch Magdalen
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BARRINGTON, a parish in Langport district, Somerset; 3½ miles NE of Ilminster, and 5 SW of Langport r. station. It includes the hamlet of Barrington Hill, and part of the hamlet of Westport; and its Post town is Ilminster. Acres, 1,656. Real property, £3,857. Pop., 501. Houses, 104. The property is much subdivided. Barrington Court was a seat of the Phelipses and the Strodes, visited in the time of the latter by the Duke of Monmouth. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Bath and Wells. Value, £84. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is ancient. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BARRINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Langport, hundred of South Petherton, W. division of Somerset, 3¾ miles (N. E.) from Ilminster; containing, with the hamlet of Barrington-hill, 531 inhabitants, and comprising by computation 900 acres. Hemp and flax are extensively cultivated. About a mile from the village is the terminus of the canal recently cut by the Parret Navigation Company, by means of which, in conjunction with the rivers Isle and Parret, a communication is obtained with the town of Bridgwater. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £84; patron John Lee Lee, Esq., as lessee of the advowson under the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The tithes have been commuted for £396.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
Sarah Hawkins Genealogy Site – Barrington Somerset
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Langport
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Crewkerne
- Poor Law Union: Langport
- Hundred: South Petherton
- Province: Canterbury